PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Major oil and gas infrastructure facilities could be covered by the amended legislation if they are considered a major source of hazardous air pollutants, criteria pollutants or are subject to prevention of significant deterioration or nonattainment new source review under existing regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 5, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring an evaluation of the cumulative impacts of certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment facilities and major sources of air pollution proposed in communities already burdened by pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

However, the reasons why I am into air quality are a bit contradictory. On the one hand, I am fascinated by air quality because I love working with sensors and monitoring equipment. I enjoy doing outreach and education about electronics with kids. Ozone, too, poses significant risks to respiratory health.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Other Events -- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna Trout Unlimited to Hold Stream Cleanup April 19 On Lycoming Creek -- Berks County Agricultural Center To Host April 23 Open House , 8:00 a.m. Delaware River Sojourn June 14-20 - Celebrating 30 Years Of Paddling The Delaware -- PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

The mission of ENN is to inspire, equip, educate, and mobilize evangelical Christians to love God and others by rediscovering and reclaiming the Biblical mandate to care for creation and working toward a stable climate and a healthy, pollution-free world. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

The health costs of these pollution sources are also inequitably distributed, since power plants tend to be sited in communities that have lower incomes and education levels. EPA has already finalized a rule that aims to address interstate ozone pollution , dubbed the Good Neighbor Plan.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

Air Pollution - Under a high greenhouse gas scenario, premature mortality attributed to climate change in 2030 could reach 3,340 for ozone-related deaths and 55,600 for PM 2.5. Climate change experts predict drastic changes in the next decades: Wildfires - An increase of 1° Celsius (1.8°

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Breezometer

JUNE 12, 2022

Clean Air Day brings together different communities, businesses, educational institutes, and health sector facilities to participate in the largest air pollution campaign in the UK, which suffers from an estimated 36,000 air pollution-linked deaths every year. Clean Air Day 2022: What’s the Big Deal?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool. Read more here.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

AQ-Watch was formed as a response to the pressing global air pollution problem. Ambient air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to public health, responsible for an estimated 4.2 Fighting Air Pollution On Multiple Fronts. BreezoMeter and its partners won the grant for the AQ-Watch project.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The NAAQS (pronounced “knacks”) are supposed to be the maximum amount of air pollution consistent with protection of public health and welfare. Air pollution is the biggest threat to poor communities and communities of color.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Evidence is mounting that air pollution regulation is an effective way of reducing health disparities between disadvantaged communities and the population as a whole. The basic reason is simple: Air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to poor communities and communities of color.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

On July 21, the Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA held an educational webinar entitled-- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It. Wastewater can also have various heavy metals and radioactive materials present that can harm health.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

NSF : The agency issued a solicitation for a new multidisciplinary, world-class educational center at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that aims to serve as a hub for STEM education and outreach. Smaller telescopes and facilities at the Arecibo site remain in use and could be incorporated into the educational center.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Regardless, places with high densities of emissions, such as industrialized cities, still have air pollution problems, and these are called “non-attainment areas” because those areas fail to attain one or more NAAQS. Implementation of the Clean Air Act is a unique (from a regulatory perspective) partnership between EPA and each state.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2022

To take just one example, to estimate the proportion of students of color near major freight routes, EPA used an Education Department database covering all U.S. and ozone concentrations as a result of the standards.”. The analysis drew upon numerous published studies, but also included evidence that the agency itself had assembled.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Justice40ward Toxic Tours are happening all over the country in an effort to educate folks, including federal government employees, about the Biden Administration Justice40 goal to prioritize 40 percent of federal investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, clean transit, clean water infrastructure, remediation of legacy pollution, etc.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Utility Dive: EPA Regional Ozone Proposal Threatens Electric Reliability: RTOs, State Utility Regulators PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh-Area Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In its legislative findings, which remain in air quality statutes today , Congress justified air pollution regulation because “the growth of the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization, industrial development, and the increasing use of motor vehicles, has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfare.”

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all. NSF – STEM Education Advisory Panel Meeting (June 18).

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